[GRLUG] RaspBerry Pi

[Casey DuBois]

I Like the SD card slot for Hard Drive and yes you can go from HDMI back to
VGA.

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:50 PM, megadave <megadave at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hrm.. all taht USB can be hubbed. And this uses an SD card slot as its
> "hard drive", so no need for IDE or SATA.. And it has ethernet.
>
> The only issue might be the video - can you get from HDMI to VGA? I've
> never used HDMI, so dont know much about it. What other video inputs
> does that touchscreen have?
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 14:45, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Casey DuBois <casey at grlug.org> wrote:
> >> That's the kind of device I wanted to use in the Kiosk.
> >> Thinking we're needing something a little larger with more ports.
> >
> > Ports requirements, IIRC, are:
> > * One(1) VGA port, or DVI-I and a DVI->VGA adapter
> > * One(1) USB port for One(1) RS-232 serial port for the touchscreen's
> > input (USB is the most convenient)
> > * One(1) USB port for the ticket printer.
> > * One(1) USB port for the cash reader.
> > * One(1) USB port, one(1) SATA port or one(1) IDE port for booting the
> > OS. (Unless we talk about netboot again)
> > * One(1) ethernet port for network access.
> >
> > That's minimum, and can even be worked downward a little with a USB
> > hub or expansion card. Anything else is gravy.
> >
> > I know Adobe Flash runs on Arm (it's running on my Xoom), but I don't
> > know if they have an Arm Flash plugin for Linux. So a low-power x86
> > processor would be ideal. AMD's low-power Bulldozer might even be
> > appropriate. What's the lowest wattage x86 processor around that can
> > handle Adobe Flash?
> >
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